Laparoscopic surgery for colon cancer: a review of the fascial composition of the abdominal cavity

Surgery Today

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 129-139

  Mike, Makio ^a   Kano, Nobuyasu ^a  

^a KAMEDA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colon cancer surgery; Fascial composition; Fusion fascia; Subperitoneal fasciae

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; COLON; COLON RESECTION; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FASCIA; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONEUM; PROCEDURES; SIGMOID;

ABDOMINAL CAVITY; COLECTOMY; COLON; COLON, SIGMOID; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FASCIA; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; PERITONEUM;

EID: 84893160892     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-014-0857-9     Document Type: Review

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